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PATENT Genion;

on ROXBURY, MAssAoHUsnTrs.

IMPROVEMENT EN SHOES.

Specication forming part or Letters Patent No. 52,138,

To all 'whom it 'may concern:

Beit known that I, EDWIN GHESTERMAN, of Roxbury, in the county-ot' Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful ImprovementJ in Linings for Boots and Shoes; and I do hereby declare thatvt'he followingyis a full, olear,.and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part-of this specification. l

This invention is intended'more particularly for application to the rubberboot and shoe 'for which a patent was issued toune on the 27th ot' June, 1865, but may be applied to boots and shoes made of other material.

The invention consists in interposing a' lining of hair, Wool, telt, or some other suitable material between the upper or outside of the bootor 'shoe and the usual lining on the inside of the shoe. l A

The drawingr is a side elevation of a shoe with a-piece of the upper removed to show' the application thereto of my in'vention.

Adesignates a shoe known asa gentlemans balmoral boot.77 In order' to render this shoe warm to the feetin cold weather I interpose between the upper a and the lining (which latter in the present instance is of the cloth usually 4employed for'lining slices, but Y be of any suitable vmaterial to admit of the application of my invention) a stuifing or vintermediate liningv of hair, wool, felt,

v orother suitable material, B, which may be datea January 23', ieee.

or other material of entrance of cold air, and this latter feature boots and shoes. f Boots and shoes thus made will, be found very easy to the feet and conducive to health andcomto'rt, and when the said lining` is applied to my rubber shoeor boot aforesaid `the evils resulting fron cold or wet feet will .be .entirely overcome.

l do not claim lining the inside of shoe With-fur, cloth fabrics, or the like, as I am aware that this has been done before; but What I claim as new, and desire to secure' .by Letters Patent, is

,I'nterposing a llining of hair, wool, felt, or some other material'between the upper. or'outside and-the usual lining` of a boot orshoe, for the -purposeof keeping theI feet warm in cold weather, substantially as specified. The above specification .ofi my invention' signedby me this. llth'day of November, 1865.

DWIN CHESTERMAN..

Witnesses:

JAMEs B.` FoRsY'rH,

Y WM. FonsYTH, Jr.

ghout the shoe in-4 or shoe I not onlyl I Ventilation of the feetwithot permitting-the (ventilation) is a very desirable one in rubber y 

